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Душа от пепел и кръв by Jennifer L. Armentrout, Дженифър Л. Арментраут

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reading_bubbles's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

This is the final book of ash and blood(at least for now) and I was a bit bummed, the entire book is basically just the first book rewritten from the male character perspective, and didn’t feel super informative. Like I get it if there’s some secret piece he unveils, but it didn’t really do that.

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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

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adventurous informative slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

I thought this was the final book of this series and yet it wasn’t, and it wasn’t needed. If I wanted to re-read the first book, I would have re-read the first book.

This book is based on Cas and after the battle, the fighting has only just begun. Gods are awakening across Iliseeum and the mortal realm, readying for the war to come. But when Poppy falls into stasis, Cas faces the very real possibility that the dire, unexpected consequences of what she is becoming could take her away from him. Cas is given some advice though – something he plans to cling to as he waits to see her beautiful eyes open once more: Talk to her. And so, he does. He reminds Poppy how their journey began, revealing things about himself that only Kieran knew in the process. But it’s anyone’s guess when she’ll wake or how much of the realm and Cas will have changed when she does.

This book just wasn’t needed in the slightest, the author could have cut down the first book and do it as dual POV, but my patience with this series is getting thinner and thinner. I was hoping this would be the end, but it was a complete money-grab. It was like the author was being pushed by her manager, editor someone from her team to get a book out from this series in 2023 and she found a draft or an early idea of making the first book with either dual POV or with Cas’s point of view and decided to run with it whilst Poppy is asleep and threatening memory loss. However, we don’t have memory loss, so I didn’t care for it. I didn’t particularly enjoy the first book from Poppy’s point of view never mind Cas’s. From the twelve chapters that we get in the present, it is just Cas and Kieran being concerned for Poppy and being like “hahaha yeah you remember that”, i thought she was going to kill me and things like that. We don’t find out any new information or if Poppy will remember everything.

This book felt like a way to justify things that had happened in the series so far because why on earth was Cas watching Kieran having sex with another girl at the Red Pearl and then being so defensive if someone even looks at Poppy the wrong way but was imagining and wanting Kieran to have sex with her before he did. I feel so bad for Kieran and just want him to have his own heartmate instead of being a plaything to Cas and Poppy.

This series will end well, if they all die besides Kieran and Tawny.

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doomfaery's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The reasonable side of me knows and completely understands that this book is basically a money grab. It's a shameless filler.

However, Casteels character is so strong and well developed, that reading book one all over again from his perspective was actually thrilling. The steamy scenes are still steamy, and J.L.A. manages to slip in another surprise for us at the end there.

In general, this is a great read and I'm sad to be so far from reading the sixth installment.

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zomigi's review against another edition

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emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I quite liked getting to read Casteel's POV of the first book, and I think Jennifer did a good job explaining where some of his seemingly inconsistent reactions came from. Plus, the sexual tension between Poppy and Casteel is so delicious that it's always fun to read it again. That being said, the info dumping is still a problem, especially in a book like this that is mostly a rehash of what we've already read. Oh and I definitely did not need the zombie baby, thanks.

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jyotikab's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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bookishmind_13's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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kittykels's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

I had a lot of issues with the first book so I was very concerned about having to read it again, essentially, even knowing it would be from Cas's perspective. However, this book was incredibly well done and I enjoyed his perspective so much more, especially knowing what we know of their future.

I'm also glad that we did get some follow up to the previous book, so there was some new information to go along with the memories from the first book. Instead of being bored, I was hooked the whole book and am incredibly eager to know what happens next.

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